By Labor Gazette | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: ST. PAUL – Twin Cities’ area shoppers know about Supermercado Lomabonita’s five locations, but they may not know that a recent U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the grocer failed to pay overtime to its cooks, butchers, bakers and cashiers as required by law.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced several actions designed to accelerate apprenticeship expansion as it considers halting the duplicative apprenticeship system that may reduce quality, strip protections for apprentices and cause confusion for industry. The steps follow a Biden administration announcement today.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS, MT – When OSHA inspectors arrived at Western Bee Supply Inc. in Polson to investigate a recent incident that resulted in a partial finger amputation, they found a workplace with unguarded saw blades, rotating machinery, belts, pulleys and chains. Machine operators were cleaning saw blades and ...
By Labor Gazette | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: OAK GROVE, MO – Barely two years after Arrow Plumbing LLC agreed to adopt a comprehensive trench safety program following the December 2016 death of an employee in an unprotected trench, federal inspectors responding to a complaint in August 2020 found another of the company’s employees working at least 7-feet below ground in an unprotected trench in Grain Valley.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: HAGATNA, GUAM – Forty-three workers left the Philippines, traveling 1,550 miles to Guam through a federal temporary work visa program. While working at various construction sites on Guam, their employer willfully withheld their hard-earned overtime pay. Once the U.S. Department of Labor investigated, these workers received all of the wages they had earned.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: OAK GROVE, MO – Barely two years after Arrow Plumbing LLC agreed to adopt a comprehensive trench safety program following the December 2016 death of an employee in an unprotected trench, federal inspectors responding to a complaint in August 2020 found another of the company’s employees working at least 7-feet below ground in an unprotected trench in Grain Valley.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced several actions designed to accelerate apprenticeship expansion as it considers halting the duplicative apprenticeship system that may reduce quality, strip protections for apprentices and cause confusion for industry. The steps follow a Biden administration announcement today.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: HAGATNA, GUAM – Forty-three workers left the Philippines, traveling 1,550 miles to Guam through a federal temporary work visa program. While working at various construction sites on Guam, their employer willfully withheld their hard-earned overtime pay. Once the U.S. Department of Labor investigated, these workers received all of the wages they had earned.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 17, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS, MT – When OSHA inspectors arrived at Western Bee Supply Inc. in Polson to investigate a recent incident that resulted in a partial finger amputation, they found a workplace with unguarded saw blades, rotating machinery, belts, pulleys and chains. Machine operators were cleaning saw blades and ...
By Labor Gazette | Feb 17, 2021
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 17, 2021
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 17, 2021
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 17, 2021
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 16, 2021
The US Labor Department published a two page proposed rule on Feb. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: HAGATNA, GUAM – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is asking businesses in Guam’s building, heavy, highway and residential construction industries to complete a survey to help the agency establish prevailing wage rates, as required under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: SOMERSET, NJ – For many landscaping industry workers, long days and hard work are the norm. For 12 workers of a Somerset landscaping contractor that failed to pay overtime when workweeks exceeded 40 hours, getting all of their hard-earned wages was almost as strenuous.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: IRVINE, CA – An Irvine supermarket has paid $51,430 in back wages owed to 56 workers after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found violations of the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: IRVINE, CA – An Irvine supermarket has paid $51,430 in back wages owed to 56 workers after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found violations of the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: SOMERSET, NJ – For many landscaping industry workers, long days and hard work are the norm. For 12 workers of a Somerset landscaping contractor that failed to pay overtime when workweeks exceeded 40 hours, getting all of their hard-earned wages was almost as strenuous.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 16, 2021
News Release: HAGATNA, GUAM – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is asking businesses in Guam’s building, heavy, highway and residential construction industries to complete a survey to help the agency establish prevailing wage rates, as required under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts.
